On 27/04/11 21:58, Sue Spence wrote:
> On 27 April 2011 19:54, Dirk Koopman<djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 27/04/11 13:00, Sue Spence wrote:
>>>>>> On 27 April 2011 12:49, Victoria Conlan<vicky at comps.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I still favour getting the hell out of IT and setting up a tea shop,
>>>>>> though.
>>>>>> (tea and cakes at my place when I do so!)
>>>>>>>>>> Victoria(n) sponge cakes?
>>>>>>>> But of course! I also do a pretty nifty chocolate fudge cake, and a
>>>> hugely
>>>> calorific sachertorte, plus very nice vegan shortbread.
>>>>>>>> I am going to get soooo fat. :-)
>>>>>>>>>> Vegan shortbread? WTH.
>>>>>>>>>> The short(ening) agent in Short Bread = fat.
>>>>> Specifically, it must be butter. No butter, no shortbread.
>
Actually LARD works even better (as shortening), but then a) it would
not taste the same and b) is arguably even less vegan.
So what is Vegan shortbread then?
Dirk